72 Bold & Beautiful swimmers.
Michael was taking the water temp amongst the neon lights this morning.
Some gorgeous dawn photos from Gaetan including another rainbow this morning 🙂
Thankfully the seas are slowly on their way back down, but there’s still plenty of water moving around out there so about half of our swimmers braved the waves and the other sensible half meandered around to Half Way Beach, all meeting up at Shelly of course.
Did I say sensible… ??
The sun was certainly making it’s presence known with a radiant glow reflecting everywhere.
As always, everyone was pretty happy to be out amongst it this morning 🙂
And then there’s the man behind the mask and some more random feet…
For those of you who were swimming with B&B this time last year you may remember from Gaetan’s amazing video (which you can watch here) that there were two Saints on Iain’s boat when he successfully swam solo across the English Channel !! One of the Saints was Gaetan and the other was Richard who had never even met Iain before… well as you can see below, Richard is currently out here proudly swimming with us as part of his three week holiday. It’s great to have you here Richard 🙂
Good luck to Nicole P who is off to the US today to assist her friend Roger swim around Manhattan Island !! Nicky will keep us posted on their mammoth adventure.
We will hold another Orca wetsuit fitting in Manly if there is enough interest, so please let me know asap if you would like to attend at 6.30-7pm in Manly on Fri 22nd June. I will then let you know where of course.
Don’t forget to put next Thursday morning, 21st June, in your diary as a must do 7am B&B swim as it is the Winter Solstice !! Maybe you could even try it without a wetsuit… To mark the occasion Matt has designed you your very own, one off, B&B Winter Solstice Swimmer bumper sticker… not one to be missed.
303 people are currently on target for their 2012 winter badge, but if you haven’t started your winter swims yet it’s not too late… there are still 77 days and 11 weeks of winter left !! Check out the list of who’s who in the winter zoo here
To read Michael’s tips on how to stay safe in the surf please click here
Water Temperature 18.4
Air Temperature 11.5
Sunrise 6.58am
Sunset 4.53pm
Low Tide: 10.56am
High Tide: 5.34pm
19 comments
Cae Tolman
15/06/2012 at 11:12 am
How amaaaaaaaaaazing are the sunrises at the moment? And rainbows at dawn. We are blessed!
I just did the early this morning but hung out around the surfers enjoying the visual feast of sunrise (makes you feel all poetic!)
Brendan Maher
15/06/2012 at 11:13 am
Bon voyage Nicole and best of luck to Roger in his swim around Manhattan. That is serious swimming!
Nick TB
15/06/2012 at 11:23 am
What a lovely Towel!! Tmr morn at 4am against the Herdi Gerdis, if your interested.. !!
fifi
15/06/2012 at 11:29 am
What brilliant photos Gaetan and Jules.
I just LOVE winter, its the best swimming of the year with these beautiful sunrises and lovely water.
Elaine you look suitably beautiful in your pic this morning, how do you manage to look so gorgeous at that hour??
fifi
15/06/2012 at 11:30 am
you doing the early tomorrow Cae?
Elaine
15/06/2012 at 11:40 am
Ha ha Fifi e-t reappeared when the cap went on !!!
Little Tiger
15/06/2012 at 11:58 am
Lovely swim & sunrise. Colours are so rich.
Nicole P, have fun assisting Roger in his Manhatten Island swim. Wish him all the best. Safe travels.
BIG BIG Happy B’day wishes to Midge. Hope your trip is going well.
Cae Tolman
15/06/2012 at 12:05 pm
No mate… will be speding the weekend in Kold Katoomba!
Michael [EX CI]
15/06/2012 at 12:56 pm
Yay Midge. HB from me too, Miss you!
JK
15/06/2012 at 12:59 pm
Tomorrow at 2am I make it on Setanta….JK
Alyson
15/06/2012 at 2:29 pm
What amamzing photos of that spectacular sunrise!!!
Lesley
15/06/2012 at 2:30 pm
How can I get a gig going to New York to ‘support’ a swimmer??? Does the swimmer pay for you to go?!?!??!? 😉
Good luck to Roger!
Re: photo of me with towel (next to union jack) how come I have bare feet AND wearing socks at the same time??
Anna Alvsdotter
15/06/2012 at 3:01 pm
Love the pink boys. So much lurving. (No Big Rick, I’m not jealous of Robin)
Big happy birthday to Midge. Where’d you go?
All the best to Nicole and Roger. Have fun in the big apple. I believe Shelley Taylor Smith is swimming it too!
Jalna
15/06/2012 at 3:22 pm
I had to enlarge that photo to see what was going on with your legs!!!
I guess a second set of feet could be useful.
Do you swim faster?
Lesley
15/06/2012 at 3:46 pm
And notice the flippers too, alas no didn’t swim faster!! ;-D
Jules Mackin
15/06/2012 at 4:02 pm
beautiful sunrise this morning what a great way to start the day !
Michael [EX CI]
15/06/2012 at 4:43 pm
Me too! I thought we might have had an ‘alien’ discovery. Only people from the “Silent Planet” have feet coming out of their calves like that.
Pacific Jules
15/06/2012 at 7:20 pm
Did anyone see our media celebrity, Dr Cathie on Channel 9 news this evening… !?
Mark
16/06/2012 at 12:25 pm
Happy birthday midge,
Casper and peg say so too. I saw them a couple of days ago on a walk and they look happy and well fed.
Curly sends his best also.
Enjoy!
Mark